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About the Digital Competence Check
This playlist is directly linked to Competence Area 1 of the Digital Competence Check, which is based on the European DYW SNAC Model. The Check covers 5 areas, 14 specific competences, and 38 indicators, helping you to map your starting proficiency level. By following this playlist, you will specifically target and improve the skills identified as areas for development.
This playlist features activities from the platform, all directly connected to this competence area. It is up to you to decide which activities are the most interesting and relevant for your professional development.
Within each activity, you will find four different badges. One badge is specifically intended for the Youth Worker. There are also badges for the Youth Worker's Manager and for Young People, should you wish to involve them in your development. This joint growth path is essential and is rooted in the Digital Systemic Team approach. Evidence shows that digital youth work is best realised when these four roles (Youth Worker, Manager, Young Person) collaborate.
Theme: Competence Area 1: Supporting Creative Self-Expression
Welcome to the fundamentals of digital youth work! This playlist focuses on your ability to inspire young people to create. It is about deploying the right digital tools and methods to help young people produce their own digital content.
Whether it is video, music, gaming, or other digital forms, the goal is to create an environment where young people view technology as an accessible and fun means of expression. In this playlist, you will learn how to encourage this "Do It Yourself" (DiY) mentality and establish the necessary conditions for young creators.
Key Focus Areas in this Playlist:
- Effective use of devices and digital tools (C1.1).
- Stimulating and guiding the production of digital content (C1.2).
- Creating a digital 'playground' where creativity and fun converge (C1.3).
Activities to complete
Complete the following activities, earn badges and you will see your playlist progress updated
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This activity introduces youth workers to prompt engineering as a key digital literacy. Using free tools like littlemissdata.com, aiforeducation.io, youth workers explore how crafting better AI prompts helps young people think more clearly, express ideas creatively, and use emerging technologies responsibly.
Prompting is not just about using AI tools — it's about teaching youth how to ask better questions, frame their needs, and shape the outputs they want from technology.
By completing this activity, you will
- Understand what makes a prompt effective or ineffective.
- Learn how to use AI tools to support creativity, communication, and youth voice.
- Help young people develop confidence and critical awareness when engaging with AI.
Get inspired
Visit the following websites:
Explore their prompt library.
Try one or two prompts under categories like “Creativity”, “Communication”, or “Identity”.
Watch the short introduction video: “The Step-by-Step master class on writing better prompts than 99% of people” by Enovair.
Take action: activities for different roles
Youth workers:
- Try 2–3 different prompts on aiforeducation.io. Note how slight changes affect the response.
- Craft your own creative or reflective prompt and test it with an AI tool (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot).
- Facilitate a session where youth experiment with prompts and compare outcomes.
Youth organisations:
- Develop a digital literacy session focused on AI tools and prompt awareness.
- Encourage teams to co-create a youth-centered prompt library (e.g. prompts for storytelling, event planning, community reflection).
- Integrate prompt-based activities into your media, career, or civic programs.
Young people:
- Use an AI tool with a creative or expressive prompt (e.g., poem about your neighborhood, advice to your future self).
- Reflect: What surprised you? What felt useful? What felt off or biased?
- Challenge yourself: Can you improve the prompt to get a better result?
Suggested follow-up activities
- Organize a “Prompt Lab” where youth test creative, funny, or meaningful prompts.
- Create a zine or blog post featuring “Best of AI responses” and the prompts that triggered them.
- Combine prompt work with digital ethics discussions: Who trains the AI? Whose voice does it reflect?

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Skills and experiences gained
- Critical thinking and digital fluency
- AI literacy and awareness
- Communication and expression
- Responsible technology use
- Curiosity and creativity
Tasks
Issued by organiser or scanning QR code
Badge Name: Prompt Explorer
Youth Worker – Level
Task 1: Use and test at least three prompts from aiforeducation.io. Reflect on the differences and how youth might use them.
Task 2: Facilitate a “prompt lab” and share outcomes or reactions from youth participants.